1065) I’ve written about anger before, but it is a subject that is good to examine many times because there’s not a person who hasn’t had the “experience” that anger brings.

Looking at the Greek and Latin origins of this word, the meaning used in Ephesians 4:31 describes an emotion that is driven onward; it is “wrath” put on a rocket, sort-of-speak. Anger is not something that is an independent entity. You cannot say your anger doesn’t affect anyone else because this type of anger spreads everywhere. A good picture is adding one drop of food coloring into a bowl full of pure water. The color will always change the purity.

The garbage of this type of anger is hazardous waste, toxic to anyone and everyone and it is vital to get it out of your “system”. How can you do this? This verse says at the beginning, get rid of.. anger. The words, get rid mean to lift up or off.

Because anger is so toxic, it is not unusual for a person to need professional guidance to lift it up or cast it off. Regardless of how you let it go, do so now. The sooner the poison is treated, the better the prognosis.